(11-27-2012 11:56 AM)adluther Wrote:  

(11-27-2012 11:54 AM)TennTiger Wrote:  Y'all do know this this means the non football schools are about to break away. No way Aresco risks keeping them happy and invite Tulane who draws about 500 people to their games at a high school gymnasium.

Hell, ECU would have been a dream upgrade compared to TULANE.

no, we do not know that. you are speculating. Tulane last year wasn't far off from Houston or SMU attendance numbers. Rutgers and providence doesn't draw 20k a game for bball. Just stop dude.

NAIVE

(11-27-2012 11:56 AM)adluther Wrote:  

(11-27-2012 11:54 AM)TennTiger Wrote:  Y'all do know this this means the non football schools are about to break away. No way Aresco risks keeping them happy and invite Tulane who draws about 500 people to their games at a high school gymnasium.

Hell, ECU would have been a dream upgrade compared to TULANE.

no, we do not know that. you are speculating. Tulane last year wasn't far off from Houston or SMU attendance numbers. Rutgers and providence doesn't draw 20k a game for bball. Just stop dude. the bball schools will still make more money in the BE than anywhere else. ultimately, $$$ runs the show now day. nothing else matters, which is apparent in expansion.

Go mention that on the C-USA board and ask how legit any Tulane attendance figure is.

(11-27-2012 11:55 AM)EDLUVAR Wrote:  

(11-27-2012 11:53 AM)adluther Wrote:  

(11-27-2012 11:50 AM)EDLUVAR Wrote:  If another chitty football team is added all sports I am going to be affraid to go outside here in Boise.

.. .b/c the MWC is so much better?

Then CUSA? I think so.

Good lord what a miserable.

(11-27-2012 11:53 AM)stever20 Wrote:  I guess all that talk about dissolving the conference is gone......

This. Everyone needs to look at the big picture. The biggest threat to this conference going forward (besides the obvious scenario of the defection of Louisville and/or UConn) was the Big East Catholic schools splitting off. The football people can argue otherwise, but Aresco knows how important those markets are to the TV contract. Tulane is *exactly* the type of all-sports member that the Big East Catholic members would want - private school in an urban market with great academics. This indicates that the hybrid league is sticking together (for better or for worse).

(11-27-2012 11:35 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Thanks for improving C-USA guys. Just take UAB and Rice and we'll be good.

No way thats happening. Bye Bye Boise. Bye Bye SDSU. Add UAB, Old Dominion, and Middle Tennesee State, plus an imaginary team in Charlotte --thats surely worth 15 million a year....ok, maybe 2 million a year. No way BYU is joining that crap. There is no way. Plus, I dont think the Catholics would be all that fired up about Tulane and they have a huge majority in votes.

Boise fans should be happy. Another bottom-feeder to beat up and improve your record. The SEC, ACC, B1G, XII, and PAC all have bottom-feeders. This one just happens to come with a TV market and solid academics. That's about it, though.

(11-27-2012 11:56 AM)TennTiger Wrote:  

(11-27-2012 11:56 AM)adluther Wrote:  

(11-27-2012 11:54 AM)TennTiger Wrote:  Y'all do know this this means the non football schools are about to break away. No way Aresco risks keeping them happy and invite Tulane who draws about 500 people to their games at a high school gymnasium.

Hell, ECU would have been a dream upgrade compared to TULANE.

no, we do not know that. you are speculating. Tulane last year wasn't far off from Houston or SMU attendance numbers. Rutgers and providence doesn't draw 20k a game for bball. Just stop dude.

NAIVE

last years attendance:
Houston 3788
Tulane 2252
SMU 2013

(btw, ECU was 4801)

(11-27-2012 11:57 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(11-27-2012 11:56 AM)adluther Wrote:  

(11-27-2012 11:54 AM)TennTiger Wrote:  Y'all do know this this means the non football schools are about to break away. No way Aresco risks keeping them happy and invite Tulane who draws about 500 people to their games at a high school gymnasium.

Hell, ECU would have been a dream upgrade compared to TULANE.

no, we do not know that. you are speculating. Tulane last year wasn't far off from Houston or SMU attendance numbers. Rutgers and providence doesn't draw 20k a game for bball. Just stop dude. the bball schools will still make more money in the BE than anywhere else. ultimately, $$$ runs the show now day. nothing else matters, which is apparent in expansion.

Go mention that on the C-USA board and ask how legit any Tulane attendance figure is.

butthurt?

(11-27-2012 11:35 AM)stever20 Wrote:  

(11-27-2012 11:33 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  I've referred to Tulane as a legit possibility for years. Forget about on-the-field football. Look at the institutional profile: urban school in a good market, great recruiting area, top academics. Those are all assets that the Big East is looking for in a school.

I'd say as well that it'd be a fit for those southern schools- Memphis, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, Tampa, Orlando....

Except they are tiny and suck at everything.

What an awful ******* addition. God I hate this conference.

Sounds like the Big East needed 1 more all sport school to get to 8. We were at 10. With Rutgers and possibly Louisville and UConn leavinig, we would be at 7.

Tulane may have edged out East Carolina for the 8th all sport slot. If that's true, that decision was clearly made by the Big East basketball schools, which means they are still on board.

(11-27-2012 11:44 AM)Kyle0614 Wrote:  

(11-27-2012 11:40 AM)RUScarlets Wrote:  Tulane was the one school I thought the BE would take from the remaining crop that made the most sense to me. At one point they were rumored for the Big 12.

It's a slam dunk fit.

Are you serious? Would you rather have our 50,000 or their 500, this s**T is absolutely disgusting.......

Yup... outside of BYU/AFA, I add Tulane. No question. Close between them and Frenso. Seems like Aresco and I were on the same page here.

(11-27-2012 11:59 AM)stever20 Wrote:  

(11-27-2012 11:56 AM)TennTiger Wrote:  

(11-27-2012 11:56 AM)adluther Wrote:  

(11-27-2012 11:54 AM)TennTiger Wrote:  Y'all do know this this means the non football schools are about to break away. No way Aresco risks keeping them happy and invite Tulane who draws about 500 people to their games at a high school gymnasium.

Hell, ECU would have been a dream upgrade compared to TULANE.

no, we do not know that. you are speculating. Tulane last year wasn't far off from Houston or SMU attendance numbers. Rutgers and providence doesn't draw 20k a game for bball. Just stop dude.

NAIVE

last years attendance:
Houston 3788
Tulane 2252
SMU 2013

(btw, ECU was 4801)

Thank you for helping me out there. The BE wouldnt' be crazy about ANY of those number in basketball honestly. But look at the SMU turn around just by being invited to the BE. I expect Tulane to do the same.

I thought the Big East should go to Louisiana because there is a team in the state waiting to compete with LSU but I didn't think it would be Tulane. This good for Big East in recruiting Louisiana. As for BSU fans, cool down because this is most likely the team to replace Rutgers.

Take this for what it's worth:
cnpatterson3 Also: Tulane joining for 2013-14? C-USA's exit process appears to be more a gift bag

Not sure why this would be, unless someone else is coming aboard for next year as well.......

Congratulations, Green Wave!


Welcome to the party!

I could see the Catholic schools behind this move as Frank alluded to, and frankly, keeping them happy is important as we move forward. The BCS AQ stuff is gone. We can't also lose the basketball schools that help make this conference a notch above the other non-AQs.

(11-27-2012 12:02 PM)stever20 Wrote:  Take this for what it's worth:
cnpatterson3 Also: Tulane joining for 2013-14? C-USA's exit process appears to be more a gift bag

Not sure why this would be, unless someone else is coming aboard for next year as well.......

Or someone is leaving early.

+ roadies to Nola, big market, fertile recruiting grounds, not ECU
- ****** football

(11-27-2012 11:33 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  I've referred to Tulane as a legit possibility for years. Forget about on-the-field football. Look at the institutional profile: urban school in a good market, great recruiting area, top academics. Those are all assets that the Big East is looking for in a school.

Lousy attendance, no fanbase, little media interest in their market. So yeah, they fit in great with SMU and Memphis.

When did the Big East start caring about academics? Are Memphis and Houston and Temple in the US News Top 100?

UConn and Louisville made the hybrid worth it for the basketball schools. If they're out the door, screw football. Screw football right in the ear, and go get northeastern (or close enough, like VCU) nationally competitive basketball programs. Tulane is another basketball mouth to feed who brings nothing to the table competitively.

EDIT: I was posting while angry. I was only slogging Memphis' football attendance.